Best Practices
This book has covered lots of different topics. I believe that, right now, it has all become a big mess, from which you can only remember bits and pieces. I know I can’t handle it all in my head at this moment. There’s just too much information packed in here.
To help you remember as much as possible, this last chapter will revisit all the topics of the book, chapter by chapter. I’ll repeat the most important ideas from each chapter, while you can just relax and remember all the details. For good measure, I’ll throw in some additional tips, tricks, and techniques that didn’t find a place in the “regular” chapters.
In this chapter, you won’t learn much new. You will, however, be able to review the following topics:
- How do we classify algorithm complexity?
- With what tools can we measure code performance?
- Why is the simplest way to make programs faster to execute less code?
- Where can we find...